The voices in my head talk me to sleep each night.


Besides them, I also heard Rosa Parks reading Rumi poetry. I remember realizing at the end that I'd been holding my breath.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.